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Meaning:
Noun:
- A defensive position or effort. rfex
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait: ''taxi stand''.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- forestry A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- cricket A partnership.
- plural often '''stand''' A single set, ''as'' of arms.
- often in plural
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
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Verb:
- British To seek election.
- cricket To act as an umpire.
- intransitive To be upright, support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- intransitive To remain motionless.
- intransitive To rise to one?s feet; to stand up.
- intransitive To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- negative To tolerate.
- transitive To place in an upright or standing position.
Source: Wiktionary
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